(3) YA Four Long Island prep-school students experience tragedy after they fall in with the beguiling author of their favorite teen novel. Interview transcripts and diary excerpts provide shifting accounts of what happened between the powerful (fictional) author and her fans; interspersed excerpts from the author's books reveal she was lifting story lines from her young friends' lives. This is a twisting, salacious drama that tantalizingly blends fiction and reality.

Reviewer: Jessica Tackett MacDonald

(3) YA Joss Byrd is a serious, award-winning actress at only twelve years old. While shooting an independent film, Joss must manage her wildcard mother, deal with a creepy adult co-star, and learn her lines even though she hasn't had time to learn to read. In this fascinating and frank realistic novel, Peñaflor doesn't shy away from the gritty and uncomfortable consequences of growing up on camera.

Reviewer: Jessica Tackett MacDonald